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Carrie Fisher is Dead: She Was My Hero I had really hoped I wouldn’t have to write this, but it is my duty to report that Carrie Fisher died this morning. She had been hospitalized Friday after suffering a massive heart attack in flight to Los Angeles.

2016 Has Been A Golden Year For Strategy Games As you may have noticed from being on the internet or talking to other human beings, 2016 has been a bit of a shitshow. But if there’s one piece of solace to be found in the flaming wreckage of this orbital rotation, it’s been the quality of its video games. Strategy ones in particular.

Is Netflix secretly trolling ‘Game of Thrones’ fans? Netflix has a new show out called ‘Medici: Masters of Florence, and coincidentally, two of the actors also starred in ‘Game of Thrones.; Richard Madden and David Bradley, who play Robb Stark and Walder Frey respectively in the HBO show.

That wouldn’t ordinarily cause much of an issue, except that in the HBO show Frey brutally killed Stark and his pregnant wife after Robb betrayed an oath. Now we have to watch them be friends in ‘Medici,’ and not just that: They’re such close allies that at one point, Bradley actually kisses Madden on the head.

Ben Affleck Says Batman Has No Script, Still Not a Sure Thing The Guardian caught up with Ben Affleck, who is promoting his new acting and directing effort, Warner Bros.’ Live By Night, which is currently in theaters in limited release. Last month the actor/director revealed that he’s finishing up the script and the project is on track to start filming this spring. However…

The Wheel of Time: English to Old Tongue Dictionary Many of you who have The Wheel of Time Companion have appreciated the section containing the Old Tongue-to-English dictionary, but have asked if it would be possible to receive an English-to-Old Tongue dictionary. Wait no more. We have worked on the new dictionary in our spare time over the past few months, and it is now complete.

There’s Lost, with the shared Bad Robot DNA and the elaborate character-centric mysteries. There’s Person of Interest, yet another Bad Robot show, a machine-minded drama from the mind of Jonathan Nolan, one of the co-creators responsible for Westworld. There’s Battlestar Galactica, with the shared focus on mechanical entities searching for sovereignty and the way history repeats itself. (The decades-spanning “loops” of Westworld, especially the ones surrounding Evan Rachel Wood’s Dolores, are effectively the new “all of this has happened before, all of this will happen again.”) Really, the list goes on.

Deadpool and Wolverine May Still Reunite, Just Not in Logan Earlier this week, a juicy rumor surfaced that Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds recently shot a brief cameo appearance in a post-credit scene for the upcoming Logan, which has been confirmed multiple times as the final Wolverine movie for star Hugh Jackman